Whaling protest churns nasty

A radical conservationist group said it lobbed 25 bottles of rotten butter at Japanese whalers in the remote and icy Antarctic Ocean, but denied claims that it rammed their vessel.

Protesters aboard a boat operated by the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd threw the bottles – containing butyric acid, produced by rancid butter – at the Kaiko Maru whaling ship, which is conducting Japan’s research whaling programme.